Fabio Rojas (footballer)

Fabio Renato Rojas Prieto (born 4 August 1999) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a centre back or right back for Peruvian Primera División side Ayacucho FC on loan from Alianza Lima.

Fabio Rojas
Personal information
Full name Fabio Renato Rojas Prieto
Date of birth (1999-08-04) 4 August 1999
Place of birth Comas, Peru[1]
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Playing position(s) Centre back, Right back
Club information
Current team
 Ayacucho
(on loan from Alianza Lima)
Number 4
Youth career
0000–2011 Cantolao
2011–2017 Alianza Lima
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019– Alianza Lima 3 (0)
2019 → UTC Cajamarca (loan) 19 (0)
2020– → Ayacucho (loan) 1 (0)
National team‡
2013 Peru U15
2017 Peru U18
2018– Peru U20 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Club career

Alianza Lima

Rojas started playing football at the age of five and later joined Alianza Lima from Academia Deportiva Cantolao in 2011.[1]

He was promoted to the first on 30 March 2017 and on 9 April 2017, 17-year old Rojas got his official debut as a starter for Alianza against Juan Aurich.[3] He played a total of three games in the 2017 season. In the following season, Rojas made no appearances for the first team but was a regular starter of the club's reserve team. To gain some experience, he was loaned out to UTC Cajamarca for the 2019 seaosn.[4]

Despite a successful loan spell at UTC with 19 appearances in the Peruvian Primera División, he was loaned out to Ayacucho FC for the 2020 season.

International career

In 2014, Rojas was a part of the Peruvian U15 national team, who won gold in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing and in 2017, he was also a part of the U18 national team.

Rojas was called up for the Peruvian U20 national team in January 2019 who was going to play in the 2019 South American U-20 Championship. Rojas was also the captain of the U20 team.[5]

Personal life

Rojas' uncle is the former Deportivo de La Coruña forward William Huapaya.[1]

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References
  1. Fabio Rojas: del oro en Nanjing 2014 a promesa en Alianza Lima, elbocon.pe, 4 October 2017
  2. Fabio Rojas at WorldFootball.net
  3. JUAN AURICH VS. ALIANZA LIMA 0 - 1, soccerway.com, 9 April 2017
  4. Alianza Lima dio a conocer el futuro de Franco Medina y Fabio Rojas, rpp.pe, 15 February 2019
  5. Renato Rojas: conoce al capitán de la Selección Peruana Sub 20, futbolperuano.com, 19 January 2019
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